Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 5.21 Earth radii
A mass of 23.70 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.87 g
An orbital period of 18.009 days
Semi-major axis 0.1333 AU
Equilibrium temperature 658 K (385 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,237.98 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.282
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 57,101,698 years

Kepler-562 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

5.21 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.465 R♃

Mass

23.70 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.075 M♃

Density

0.92 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.87 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Neptune-like

ESI Score 0.282

HZ Position Inner

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016

Method Transit

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#357of 574

top 62.0%

This planet

5.21R⊕

Neptune-like median

6.39R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TOI-1710 b 5.20 R⊕ Kepler-25 c 5.22 R⊕ TOI-5238 b 5.22 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-562 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	5.21	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	23.70	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.92	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.87	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	67.44	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159301821

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127518891962700672

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127518891962700672

System

Kepler-562

Percentile among Neptune-like cohort

Radius 5.210 R⊕ · percentile 38 / cohort 574

Mass 23.700 M⊕ · percentile 40 / cohort 574

Orbital period 18.01 d · percentile 50 / cohort 524

Distance 992.77 pc · percentile 73 / cohort 572

ESI 0.282 · percentile 46 / cohort 574

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

18.009 days

Semi-major axis

0.1333 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.73 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 18.01 Earth days (4.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1333 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.300 %

Duration

4.971 h

Impact parameter b

0.580

Rp / R★

0.053429

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,015.4414

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 3,004 ppm lasting ≈ 4.97 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.053429

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

24.300

Impact parameter (b)

0.580

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,015.4414

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.13400

Eq. Temperature

658K

(385 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

67.44

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.282

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-562

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,575 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.57 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.900 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.930 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.500 dex

Stellar density

0.908 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

992.77 parsec

Light-years 3,237.98 ly

V-band magnitude

14.91 mag

Voyager-speed travel 57,101,698 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.979 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.309 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.63 mas/yr

PM Declination

-12.20 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.238 · y = -0.649 · z = 0.723

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.11960° · Dec 46.27374°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.819° · 14.583°

Ecliptic λ, β

307.661° · 67.101°

HTM-20 index

1894014968